A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights of more detailed essays (found under MO Missouri River on sidebar category list) describing drainage divide areas for Missouri River tributaries downstream from Kansas City. Each of the detailed essays uses topographic map interpretation methods to determine origins of landform features […]
Category archives for MO Missouri River
Abstract: The Missouri River-Blackwater River drainage divide in Lafayette and Johnson Counties, Missouri is a west to east oriented drainage divide between the east-northeast and southeast oriented Missouri River to the north and the east, northeast, and east oriented Blackwater River to the south. The drainage divide area was eroded by immense south oriented floods derived […]
Abstract: The Blackwater River-South Grand River drainage divide area in Johnson and Henry Counties, Missouri is actually the Blackwater River-Osage River drainage divide area and was eroded by immense south oriented floods derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet. Flood waters in Henry County were captured by headward erosion of the deep Osage River-South […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Missouri River-Tarkio River drainage divide area located in Fremont and Page Counties, Iowa and Atchison County, Missouri. The Missouri River flows in a south-southeast direction along the Fremont and Atchison County western borders. The Tarkio River and its major tributaries flow in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Tarkio River-Nodaway River drainage divide area located in Atchison, Holt, and Nodaway Counties of northwest Missouri. The Tarkio and Nodaway Rivers are two of several rivers which originate in southwest Iowa and flow in south-southwest and/or south directions to join the southeast-oriented […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Nodaway River-One Hundred and Two River drainage divide area in Andrew and Nodaway Counties, Missouri. The Nodaway and One Hundred and Two Rivers originate in southwest Iowa and flow into northwest Missouri as south oriented rivers. The Nodaway River flows across Nodaway and […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins for the West Nodaway River-Platte River drainage divide area located in Page, Taylor, Ringgold, and Adams Counties, Iowa. The West Nodaway River flows in a south direction across eastern Page County to join the southwest and south oriented East Nodaway River and to form the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Des Moines River-Grand River drainage divide area located in Adair, Madison, Union, and Ringgold Counties, Iowa. The major drainage divide observed in the four county study region is the Middle River-Thompson River drainage divide, where the Middle River is a southeast and […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret the Platte River-Thompson River drainage divide area located in Adair, Union, Ringgold, and Decatur Counties, Iowa. The Grand River is a south-southwest, southeast, and south oriented Missouri River tributary which originates between the south-southwest oriented Platte River drainage basin and the south-southeast oriented Thompson River drainage basin […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret Missouri River-Platte River drainage divide area landform origins in Buchanan and Platte Counties, Missouri. The Platte River referred to in this essay originates in southern Iowa and flows in a south direction into northwest Missouri and then into eastern Buchanan County where it flows in a south […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation techniques are used to interpret drainage divide origins in the One Hundred and Two River-East Fork Grand River drainage divide area located in Nodaway, Worth, and Gentry Counties, Missouri. The study region is located in northwest Missouri along and/or near the Iowa-Missouri state line. Multiple south-oriented Missouri River tributaries, including the […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Platte River-Grand River drainage divide area of Gentry, Andrew, and De Kalb Counties, Missouri. The Platte River is a south-oriented Missouri River tributary flowing through eastern Andrew County and has south-oriented tributaries originating in southwest Gentry County and flowing through western De […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret Platte River-Missouri River drainage divide area landform origins in Clinton and Clay Counties, Missouri. Clinton and Clay Counties are north of the southeast and east oriented Missouri River in the Kansas City, Missouri region and west of the south oriented Platte River, which joins the Missouri River […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Shoal Creek-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Caldwell, Ray, and Carroll Counties, Missouri. Shoal Creek is a north-northeast and east oriented tributary to the southeast and south-southeast oriented Grand River, which flows to the east-northeast and southeast oriented Missouri River near Brunswick, […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Gand River-Missouri River drainage divide area of Livingston and Carroll Counties, Missouri. The Missouri River flows in an east-northeast direction along the Carroll County southern border while the Grand River flows in a southeast direction across Livingston County and then in a […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Grand River-Shoal Creek drainage divide area located in Daviess, Caldwell, and Livingston Counties, Missouri. The Grand River is a south, southeast, and south oriented Missouri River tributary and flows in a southeast direction across Daviess and Livingston Counties before turning to flow in […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret Medicine Creek-Locust Creek drainage divide area landform origins in Putnam, Sullivan, and Linn Counties, Missouri. Medicine Creek and Locust Creek are streams originating in southern Iowa and flowing in a south direction across Putnam, Sullivan, and Linn Counties, Missouri (in that order) to join the southeast […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Grand River-Chariton River drainage divide area located in Chariton County, Missouri. The Grand River and Chariton River are south-oriented tributaries flowing to the southeast-oriented Missouri River with the Grand River located west of the Chariton River. Mussel Fork is a south-oriented Chariton […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret Locust Creek-Chariton River drainage divide area landform origins in Linn, Macon, Sullivan, Adair, and Putnam Counties, Missouri. Locust Creek is a stream which originates in southern Iowa, just north of the Missouri state line, and which flows in a south direction across western Putnam County, west-central Sullivan […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret landform origins in the Little Chariton River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Chariton, Randolph, and Howard Counties, Missouri. The Missouri River flows in a south and east-southeast direction along the study region’s western and southern boundary. The Little Chariton River is a south oriented tributary to the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map interpretation methods to determine landform origins in the Elk Fork Salt River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Randolph, Audrain, and Boone Counties, Missouri. The Elk Fork Salt River is an east-oriented tributary to the east-oriented Salt River, which flows to the south oriented Mississippi River, and is located north of […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret landform origins in the South Fork Salt River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Audrain and Callaway Counties, Missouri. Audrain County is located north of Callaway County and the Missouri River flows in an east direction along the Callaway County southern border. Callaway County is almost completely […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret landform origins in the West Fork Cuivre River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, and Warren Counties, Missouri. The Missouri River flows in an east direction and forms the southern border of Callaway (west), Montgomery, and Warren (east) Counties with Audrain County being located […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine Peruque Creek-Missouri River drainage divide area landform origins in eastern Warren and western St Charles Counties, Missouri. The Missouri River flows in a southeast direction along the Warren County southern border and then turns to flow in a northeast direction along the St Charles County southern […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Mississippi River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in St Charles County, Missouri. The study region is located north of St Louis and represents the area between the south, southeast, northeast, southeast, and south-southwest oriented Mississippi River and the northeast-oriented Missouri River, which […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 